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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (92367)	7/16/2001 10:08:21 PM
From: Tommaso	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

"Women worldwide are having well below replacement numbers of children. " Then who is giving birth to these children who are increasing the world population? Frogs? Cretins, to judge from comments on this thread.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (92367)	7/16/2001 10:14:21 PM
From: rolatzi	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 95453

Agreed that fossil fuel will be replaced in the long run but not until it becomes prohibitively expensive or environmentally undesirable. With regard to the population, we are only slowing down the rate of increase we are not yet near a declining population. Furthermore, the rest of the world is aspiring to consume at the levels of Western Europe and the US. In such case the per capita use of oil products will continue to increase markedly over this century and indeed we will have increasingly more expensive energy.

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (92367)	7/16/2001 10:47:21 PM
From: isopatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Holy smoke! An optimist. "In 100 years, nearly everyone alive now will be dead" Now there's an epiphany!<g> Nothing certain but death and taxes. Or as Keynes put it, "In the long run, we're all dead". I'm investing and enjoying life RIGHT NOW. I'm not an academic philosopher or futurist. If you want to be a futurist and demographer? That's fine. Go for it. Not knocking you. OK? But, that's not MY thing. I'm a professional investor. Only interested in facts and theories up to the point that I can make a nice living every year. Beyond that I'm not interested. So you'll not get much of a debate or argument from me. Even the more cerebral of my hobbies don't include the "bus drivers holiday"<g> Cheers, Isopatch